Correspondence with Sir Frederick Maurice

Scope and Content

Correspondence with Sir Frederick Barton Maurice (1871-1951), army officer, relating to a request that Maurice write an article on the military position in Egypt for publication in the Manchester Guardian, with discussion of potential information for inclusion, which is accepted.

Also included is a request for an article by Maurice on the military defence of the Suez Canal, with discussion of the subject, and reference to the suggestion in the Morning Post of the need for a British military force in Cairo, which is provided.

GDN/A/M55/5 is an article entitled 'The Case of Egypt' in the Morning Post, 1923.